This story is not a story at all It all happened On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary By March her world has changed for ever Foot-&-mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morleys' Devon home but soon the nightmare is a few fields away Local sheep are infected & every animal is destroyed Will the Morleys' flock be next? Will their pedigree dairy herd the sows with their piglets & Little Josh Becky's h&-reared lamb survive? Or will they be slaughtered too? The waiting & hoping is the most agonizing experience of Becky's life ...

This selection from Frieda Hughes's first four poetry collections is prefaced by a short memoir about her life & work including the loss of her parents Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath & brother Nicholas The book excludes poems from Forty-five (Harper Collins US 2006) & Alternative Values poems & paintings (Bloodaxe Books 2015) 240 pages Hughes Frieda ...

Some 150000 citizens were killed or severely wounded when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945
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An evocative wordless book about the mysteries of the sea from acclaimed illustrator Alison Jay 32 pages Jay Alison ...

Book category winner of the Creative Play Award 2017 Out of the Box will broaden your child's imagination & develop craft skills through interactive play & creativity with clear step-by-step instructions showing you how to build 25 astonishing cardboard models Build something brilliant with recycled card from castles to animal masks dens & even lizards! You will be astounded at what the humble cardboard box can be transformed into Out of the Box is a new approach to recycling that will provide hours of entertainment & endless fun Perfect for children aged 7 to 12 Out of the Box is packed full of ideas to encourage creativity featuring detailed photographic explanations & colourful inspiration sheets that will inspire imaginative minds ...

A visitor from an alternate world is glimpsed in a snowy churchyard; a box contains a creature that resembles (but not quite closely enough) a human being; two schoolboys spend a holiday with a sinister aunt In many of these stories ordinary settings in the English countryside possess a hallucinatory quality
- a sense of meaning beyond our grasp & events running out of kilter with reality Like all the best ghost stories these haunting tales offer an enduring sense of mystery with an explanation that remains tantalisingly out of reach They grow richer with each reading
- lingering in the mind & becoming ever more sinister & more profound

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Out of the Easy is set against the vivid backdrop of 1950s New Orleans Written by New York Times bestselling author Ruth Sepetys this novel has something for everyone love mystery murder blackmail & warmth Josie Moraine wants out of The Big Easy
- she needs more than New Orleans can offer Known locally as a brothel prostitute's daughter she dreams of life at an elite college far away from here But then a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie caught between her ambition & a clandestine underworld New Orleans is luring Josie deeper in as she searches for the truth & temptation beckons at every turn Praise for Between Shades of Gray' This superlative first novel by Ruta Sepetys demonstrates the strength of its unembellished language A hefty emotional punch'
- The New York Times' moving & heart-wrenching'
- The Guardian Ruta Sepetys was born & raised in Michigan & now lives with her family in Tennessee Her first novel Between Shades of Gray was shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal & the Waterstones Children's Book Award


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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region Free Blu-ray player in order to play Christian Bale Casey Affleck & Woody Harrelson star in this crime thriller from director Scott Cooper Russell Baze (Bale) works in a dead-end job trying to make ends meet so he can support his girlfriend Lena (Zoe Saldana) & his ailing father After returning from serving in Iraq Russell&s younger brother Rodney (Affleck) gets involved with the ruthless Harlan De Groat (Harrelson) & his crime syndicate When he fails to come home & the police are unable to find him Russell puts his own life in danger to save his brother The film also stars Forest Whitaker Willem Dafoe & Sam Shepard with Leonardo Di Caprio Ridley Scott & the late Tony Scott among its producers ...

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LOST SWIMMER now in development as a film 'A taut & tightly wound page-turner' Marie Claire When environmental scientist Laura Alvarado is sent to a remote Antarctic island to report on an abandoned whaling station she begins to uncover more than she could ever imagine On a diving expedition Laura emerges into an ice cave where she is shocked to see an anguished figure crying for help But in this freezing lonely landscape there are ghosts everywhere & Laura wonders if her own eyes can be trusted Has she been in the ice too long? Piecing together a past & present of cruelty & vulnerability that can be traced around the world from Norway to Nantucket Europe & Antarctica Laura will stop at nothing to unearth the truth As she comes face to face with the dark side of human progress she also discovers a legacy of love hope & the meaning of family If only Laura can now find her way out of the ice Out of the Ice delivers compelling psychological drama for fans of Ruth Ware & Rosamund Lupton Praise for The Lost Swimmer now being developed as a film Ann Turner has produced a vivid suspenseful thriller that should appeal to those with a taste for armchair travel' Sydney Morning Herald We had pins & needles trying to unravel the truth throughout Turner's crisply written cleverly plotted tale of deceit' i Books Editor ...

Once upon a time there lived a happy family called the Maitlands Iain the father was a writer Tracey the mother worked at a nearby school They had three bright & charming children Michael Sophie & Adam It looked like the perfect family life Until October 2012 when Iain received a message Michael had been taken to hospital Years of depression anxiety & anorexia had taken their toll & he had pneumonia & a collapsed lung The doctors weren't sure if he would make it Told with humour & frankness through Michael's diary entries & Iain's own reflections Out of the Madhouse charts Michael's journey to recovery from entering the Priory & returning home to becoming a mental health ambassador for young people Sharing tips & techniques that have helped them & others to self-manage this is an essential resource for anyone experiencing depression anxiety OCD & similar issues ...